Faces of Vloggercon 2006 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Monday, June 12, 2006
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Scott, Steve, and Bre
Vloggercon - Scott, Steve, and me - June 11, 2005 by brex, uploaded from flickr.
Bre takes a snapshot with Photobooth on his MacBook Pro, then sends it to iPhoto, and then posts it to flickr.
All within a few minutes.
Susan Kitchens at Vloggercon
2020Hindsight
Family Oral History Using Digital Tools.
How to interview:
Preparation - Think about topics you wantto talk about. Open ended questions. Visit Storycorps.net for an online question generator. Fabulous.
To Our childrens Children, a book for people who are writing their autobiography.
A structured conversation to bring out stories from the other person.
Listen - Listen with your face. Allow silence. Count to 10 inside. Give the person time.
Family Oral History Using Digital Tools.
How to interview:
Preparation - Think about topics you wantto talk about. Open ended questions. Visit Storycorps.net for an online question generator. Fabulous.
To Our childrens Children, a book for people who are writing their autobiography.
A structured conversation to bring out stories from the other person.
Listen - Listen with your face. Allow silence. Count to 10 inside. Give the person time.
Digital Storytelling: A How-To Guide
KQED Digital Storytelling Initiative's "The Art, Skill, Craft, and Magic of Digital Storytelling: A How-Come, How-To Guide."
The Rodrigo A. Sepulveda Schulz Show
Video: Rodrigo A. Sepulveda Schulz: Chat with Steve Garfield.
Rodrigo intereviewed me using his cell phone at Vloggercon. Fun interview.
YouTube Helps Kids
Jason Feifer interviewed me, Carl Weaver, and Brookers, among others, for this article on YouTube for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette News, Video makers find a vast and eager audience:
Update:
Jason writes in to tell me that he has a sidebar in the online version of the story with links to all the people and sites that he mentioned in the story.
I totally missed those links when I first read the story online and thought it strange that they have Carl's Worcester Diaries URL in the text of the article, but you can't click it.
Thanks!
"Seven months ago, when she (Brookers) first began posting videos, she was shy and self-conscious. In high school, she said, she was invisible. Some classmates never heard her voice.Nice article. It would be even nicer if it had online clickable links to those mentioned in the story, especially Brookers and YouTube. I mean, it IS an article about YouTube.
But on YouTube, she found a way to show off her more relaxed, absurdist side. It was like being in the spotlight, but at a safe distance from the crowd. When positive feedback began pouring in, she was encouraged. She had always enjoyed making people laugh, and now she was doing it en masse.
The hate mail only toughened her, she said. She learned to ignore it, and to stop caring so much about what other people think. And in these seven months, she said, she’s emerged from a shell — confident, determined, talking about her successful future in terms of when, not if.
Anyone can see it ... online."
Update:
Jason writes in to tell me that he has a sidebar in the online version of the story with links to all the people and sites that he mentioned in the story.
I totally missed those links when I first read the story online and thought it strange that they have Carl's Worcester Diaries URL in the text of the article, but you can't click it.
Thanks!
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Virtual vloggercon in Second Life
virtual vloggercon in Second Life by Tao Takashi, uploaded from flickr.
This shot of me at Vloggercon, being streamed live into Second Life, is cool.
Filming Live Bands
Tips on filming live bands from vloggercon
- Use Mag Lite flashed at camera for slate
- If you have bad light and video, make it look worse. Play with levels and filters like film look. Pump up the red. Blur red channel and pull contrast up.
- Nattress film effects.
Spreading the Word About Blogging
Spreading the Word - a photoset on Flickr.
Here are some photos from my vloggercon presentation on how to build a community around vlogging.
Gnomedex, Meet the Vloggers, Boston Media Makers.
Videoblogging is people!
Watch Vloggercon From Home
You can watch Vloggercon live right from your browser. Starts at 12:00 noon pacific.
There is also an IRC chat.
If you are in Second Life, you can also chat and watch a live Vloggercon stream from the Hipcast Conference Center.
Vloggercon.
vloggercon videos
vloggercon.blip.tv (beta):
"This site is a special version of blip.tv designed for Vloggercon. Your regular blip.tv username and password will work here, and all the videos you post to vloggercon.blip.tv will also be viewable on blip.tv itself."
Amanda, Casey and Steve
Amanda, Casey and Steve by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
Meet the Vloggercon Vloggers at the Apple Store SF.
Vloggercon Broadcast to Europe
Vloggercon will be broadcast on the free-to-air satellite ( NessunoTV, Hot Bird 3, Freq 12.149, Pol Vert, FEC ¾, Sym 27500) for all European vloggers and individuals.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Media Giraffe Project Blog
Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World aka: The Media Giraffe Project blog.
The Future of Blogging
Scripting News: 6/8/2006:
"New podcast. Dan Gillmor and I participated in a moderated discussion about the future of blogging. I think it came out pretty well."Word of the Day - >Disintermediation.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Vlogging while Sleeping
Vlogging while Sleeping by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
Tony Kahn of WGBH's Morning Stories calls it plurking (playing+working).
Demetri Martin is Windows Vista
Lost Remote: Microsoft, Comedy Central ink deal with comic:
"Demetri Martin has signed 'interlocking' deals with Microsoft and Comedy Central to appear on TV and MSN Video. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Martin will host 10 webisodes on MSN, as well as be the face of Microsoft's upcoming launch of its new operating system Vista."Congratulations Demetri!
Comment on this newspaper story
Lost Remote: WashingtonPost.com to add user comments:
"WashingtonPost.com is the first major paper to begin allowing users to post comments next to stories outside the blog environment."Congratulations!
Web video is not real
Lost Remote: TiVo adds more web video:
""There's this exploding video availability on the web," TiVo CEO Tom Rogers says. 'But for most people it's not real until it's on your TV.'"
Cute Puppies Video on You Tube
Puppy vs. Cat
Watch the video that has been viewed over 783,000 times on YouTube.
Cute Pupppies!
I posted this video directly from YouTube onto my blog. It's a new feature of YouTube.
Tip:
I also changed the object code from width="425" height="350" to width="225" and it made the video smaller.
Watch the video that has been viewed over 783,000 times on YouTube.
Cute Pupppies!
I posted this video directly from YouTube onto my blog. It's a new feature of YouTube.
Tip:
I also changed the object code from width="425" height="350" to width="225" and it made the video smaller.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Political bloggers at UMass
Just got this notice in the mail, Political bloggers - MediaGiraffe:
"MASSACHUSETTS & NEW ENGLAND PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL BLOGGERS GATHERING ==== on Friday June 30, UMass AmherstSee you there.
Come join a 'meet-up' of Massachusetts and New England political bloggers at noon on Friday, June 30, 2006, at the Media Giraffe Project summit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center. For info, contact: Michael DeChiara of www.wonkNOT.net.
The gathering will start at 12:00 noon run until group wants to end. The session will run concurrently with other panels, sessions and meetings at the Media Giraffe conference, 'Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World.' The group will figure out what topics are most pertinent for discussion. Might include:
* Plans for coverage of the Massachusetts gubernatorial primary and election? How can bloggers have impact?
* Now that the blogosphere has grown to include 'professionals', what does this mean for 'citizen' blogging?"
Put your video on 13 sites
TurnHere reports on VidMirror:
With this site you still have to upload your video 13 times. It would be nice if you could upload one version to the site and have the site then do the 13 uploads for you. That's assuming that you'd want to distribute your videos this way.
I might play around with posting my videos to some video sharing sites, but I still prefer having my videos live at home with me on my vlog where people can come visit and see my videos where they live and have a conversation with me.
If I started posting my videos to 13 other sites I'm not sure how I'd keep track of the conversations, and quite possibly my conversations and my videos would then be owned by someone else, ending up on the hottest DVD of the year, funniest video blogs. Buy now!
A new service launched this week, VidMirror, lets users upload the same video to as many 13 Web video host sites. Users can then embed multiple videos in a single player on their blog or Web site, so they won't have a blank space if a host sites deletes their video (or their account).I guess some people might want to do something like this to get greater exposure, but what happens if you need to make a change on a video? Delete 13 videos then upload 13 revisions?
With this site you still have to upload your video 13 times. It would be nice if you could upload one version to the site and have the site then do the 13 uploads for you. That's assuming that you'd want to distribute your videos this way.
I might play around with posting my videos to some video sharing sites, but I still prefer having my videos live at home with me on my vlog where people can come visit and see my videos where they live and have a conversation with me.
If I started posting my videos to 13 other sites I'm not sure how I'd keep track of the conversations, and quite possibly my conversations and my videos would then be owned by someone else, ending up on the hottest DVD of the year, funniest video blogs. Buy now!
How To: DV Video
SimplyDV Techniques: Cameracraft Hints and Tips
Here's an introductory set of features written by SimplyDV's Colin Barrett and drawn from the many articles written for UK video-making magazines and also from the text of his book - Digital Video for Beginners (Ilex Press, March 2005).via [ TurnHere ]
YouTube Soup
Steve Garfield's YouTube Channel, now featuring YouTube Soup. My favorite YouTube videos.
Now featuring: Why dost thou love to eat people?
HappyScrappy.com is proud to launch Operation Shockless And Awful, a campaign to create intentionally terrible videos.Fun stuff.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Work It Carl, Work It
Worcester Diaries:
"I met today with photojournalist Paul Kapteyn, who did some picures of me for a story on videoblogging, scheduled to run this Sunday, June 4th in the Telegram & Gazette. It is always fun to see true professionals and experts work. Paul was impressive, the way he directed me to get the picture he wanted."Looks like the story will now run next week.
This could actually be my favorite video blog post ever.
I featured it over on New England Stories too.
Blogger and Firefox Don't Mix
So I had to leave Safari and start using Firefox to to get the use of HTML buttons in my browser.
Now in Firefox when I go to Blogger's 'edit posts' page I see this:
Is there any justice in the blog world?
Now in Firefox when I go to Blogger's 'edit posts' page I see this:
Is there any justice in the blog world?
You are being vlogged
You are being vlogged by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
CCTV was over to the house today to interview me for a documentary they are producing on blogging, vlogging and citizen media.
It was a blast. I'll be posting some video excerpts online.
Vlog Soup of the Week
Stuart Dobbs writes in to tell me that Vlog Soup was featured in The Times of London this weekend as the Vlog of the Week!
Thanks Stuart.
Can't find it online.
I did find Steve Lamacq though.
Colbert's Commencement Address
Stephen Colbert's 2006 Commencement Address at Knox College:
"Today is about you—you who have worked so hard to pack your heads with learning until your skulls are all plump like—sausage of knowledge. It’s an apt metaphor, don’t question it. But now your time at college is at an end. Now you are leaving here. And this leads me to a question that just isn’t asked enough at commencements. Why are you leaving here?"This is an instant classic.
Breaking News: Hess Gas in West Roxbury
You know how when you pay by credit at the Hess gas station in West Roxbury it seems like it takes a year for them to authorize your credit card at the pump.
That's because it requires human intervention for credit card approval.
So I was waiting a year and a half for authorization this morning and finally a voice comes through the pump.
Pump Voice: There's a problem with credit card payments, you'll have to come inside to pay by credit.
I went inside and gave the pump voice lady a $20.
That's because it requires human intervention for credit card approval.
So I was waiting a year and a half for authorization this morning and finally a voice comes through the pump.
Pump Voice: There's a problem with credit card payments, you'll have to come inside to pay by credit.
I went inside and gave the pump voice lady a $20.
I Found Shoe Repair on Yelp
I searched Google for a local Shoe Repair store and found General Shoe Repair Store in West Roxbury on Yelp.
Nice name.
I just dropped off a bag whose handle had fallen off. They're going to fix it by tomorrow for $5. What a deal.
Nice name.
I just dropped off a bag whose handle had fallen off. They're going to fix it by tomorrow for $5. What a deal.
Saving Marriage - The Movie
Saving Marriage - The Movie
The filmmakers used some footage I shot for friends' Flo and Nancy's wedding.
“Saving Marriage,” a documentary film about the fight to protect the right of gays and lesbians to marry in Massachusetts, has its film festival premieres next week!Timely.
Provincetown (Mass) Film Festival:
Thursday, June 15 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, June 17 at 4:30 p.m.
For tickets go to www.ptownfilmfest.com
Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco, CA:
Sunday, June 18 at 4:00 p.m.
For tickets go to www.frameline.org
Seats are limited, and these are the ONLY screenings in the nation planned so far!
For more information about the film, and to watch a trailer, go to www.SavingMarriageTheMovie.com
The filmmakers used some footage I shot for friends' Flo and Nancy's wedding.
It's JerryTime! Plays Hockey
New episode of It's JerryTime is up, It's JerryTime! - THE BRUTE.
It's all about Jerry playing floor hockey. Lots of great moments in this one.
Brings back a lot of happy memories for me of playing street hockey, playing table hockey, and hiting a tennis ball against my garage for hours on end.
I also put up a new store for It's JerryTime! where you can buy an It's JerryTime! DVD or Poster.
Cityfeeds.com - Boston
Cityfeeds.com - Boston.
Interesting.
I see that they are aggregating the contents of feeds from Universal Hub, del.icio.us Boston and Technorati Boston, among others.
There are no ads on the page.
Off On A Tangent as Graph
Off On A Tangent as Graph by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
Bruno Giussani writes about this graph in HTML as Art.
"That is the HTML structure of this blog rendered by Zurich artist, PhD student and dual blogger Marcel Salathé, who goes by the name Sala."
Steve on the desktop
Steve on the desktop by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
Mom's new desktop wallpaper. She says it looks like I'm right there. She can now have coffee with me in the morning.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
A new blogger is born
Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: The Story of Kayleigh's Birth:
"'What do we have?' I asked anxiously. No response.Congratulations!
'A little girl,' someone piped in.
'A little girl?' I repeated, making sure I heard it correctly.
Suddenly, there was a chorus of nurses telling us, 'Congratulations!'
'Susanne, you're a mommy,' I said, barely able to get the words out. 'She's beautiful!'
'Of course, she was a bit of a mess, but the nurses were working hard to clean her up. She let out a few cries just to let us know she was here.
'Does she have a name?' someone asked.
'She does have a name,' I said, relishing the moment in a way that only a new father can.
'Kayleigh India Carvin.'"
I want Blogger buttons in Safari
Blogger Help : Blogger Browser Matrix:
They don't.
They aren't even there.
Safari is really fast.
"Blogger's Preview mode and HTML formatting buttons work in some older browsers, but not in others."I want HTML formatting buttons to work in Safari.
They don't.
They aren't even there.
Safari is really fast.
Geeks in Boston
Shimon Rura just set up a cool new blog, Geeks in Boston:
"The mission of this blog is to assist the growth of this ecosystem in the Boston area, and to help interested geeks orient themselves to it."
This doesn't look right
Hello internet site doctors. I have two sick web pages that have been presented to me this morning.
Can you help?
Zermeno Art News
This Site doesn't look right in Internet Explorer:
Zermeno Art News.
My ideas for fixing this are to:
1. Go into Blogger Settings under the Formatting tab and change Enable Float Alignment from YES to NO.
2. Remove the CENTER tags and swith to using CSS for formatting.
My Mom's Blog
This site has a lot of extra white space on some versions of Safari:
My Mom's Blog.
My idea for fixing this is to:
1. Go into Blogger Settings under the Formatting tab and change Enable Float Alignment from YES to NO.
UPDATE: Mom is fixed!
Please leave your suggestions in the comments...
Thanks.
Can you help?
Zermeno Art News
This Site doesn't look right in Internet Explorer:
Zermeno Art News.
My ideas for fixing this are to:
1. Go into Blogger Settings under the Formatting tab and change Enable Float Alignment from YES to NO.
2. Remove the CENTER tags and swith to using CSS for formatting.
My Mom's Blog
This site has a lot of extra white space on some versions of Safari:
My Mom's Blog.
My idea for fixing this is to:
1. Go into Blogger Settings under the Formatting tab and change Enable Float Alignment from YES to NO.
UPDATE: Mom is fixed!
Please leave your suggestions in the comments...
Thanks.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
The Million Dollar Video Blog
My friend Jack Selby has the first Million Dollar Video Blog but I think it's really in pounds instead of dollars. 10 pence per pixel!
How To: Set up WordPress
Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress:
via [ RConversation ]
This article will pull apart the templating system and make you a WordPress Grand Wazier or your money back! (Not really on the money back.)This looks like some good reading.
We'll look at:
How to install new templates ("themes") or make your own
How all the various template files fit together
How to navigate the PHP code that pulls in content (even if you don't know much about PHP)
Where to find WordPress plug-ins
via [ RConversation ]
Friday, June 02, 2006
Ready? Set? Jet Set Show!
Jet Set Show!
Jet Set Show is a short twice-weekly variety videoblog show for kids (and the kid in all of us).
My friend Zadi made this! It's fun!
We killed what was good as well
Baghdad's Best Blogger - Center for Media and Democracy:
"Life seems to have lost its value and we are shutting up and shutting down because of fear. This is about how when everyone came to destroy what was wicked they killed what was good as well."
Do What You Love
My mom just called and told me that Brian Williams had a great segment on graduation speeches tonight called Pomp and Circumstance that featured among others, Billy Joel.
I see that I can watch NBC Nightly News online after 10 PM Eastern.
I found the quote over here, 'Doctor' Billy Joel gives song - no dance-to Syracuse U. grads:
I left a comment.
How about showing me the piece without music?
Update II:
I see that I can watch NBC Nightly News online after 10 PM Eastern.
I found the quote over here, 'Doctor' Billy Joel gives song - no dance-to Syracuse U. grads:
"Billy Joel got a standing ovation from nearly 5,000 Syracuse University graduates Sunday after he serenaded them and urged them to do what they love in life.Update:
'Don't do it for security or status, prestige, money, or, for crying out loud, don't do it for somebody else,' he said. 'Do it for love. Because if you love what you do, you'll always do what you love.'"
As mentioned, because of music licensing restrictions, we can't offer you streaming video of tonight's closing piece about the Class of 2006. So here's the next best thing -- the soundtrack -- listed in order in which the songs were used. Thanks to producer Kelly Venardos for sharing.What!?
I left a comment.
How about showing me the piece without music?
Update II:
PLEASE READ: All comments must be approved before appearing in the thread; time and space constraints prevent all comments from appearing. We will only approve comments that are directly related to this post, use appropriate language and are not attacking the comments of others.As of 9:18 AM on 6/3 my comment has not been approved.
Marilyn Monroe's Blog
The World Organization for Manuscript Preservation has come out with a book, The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison.
Here's an excerpt from Marilyn Monroe's blog on her frustrations with her secret boyfriend, J:
'Why do guys have to always be so all about themselves? Why do they have to put their work above the women they love? It's always the same thing. Mostly, with J, he's just so obsessed with his work that I can hardly ever steal away time with him. Sometimes, it feels like he's trying so hard to control the world around him that he never has time for me. Sneaking around, late night calls? don't know, but I don't always feel like I'm his primary focus. If you can't meet me at a nice restaurant for a nice dinner out with the rest of the town...If you have to meet me at a hotel at 1 am in the morning, well, there's something definitely wrong with our relationship.'They've also got Moses, William Shakespeare and Alexander the Great.
via [ Utter Wonder ] by way of [ DriveTime ]
How To: SecondLife Videoblogging
Tao Takashi writes, How to become a famous vlogger inside SecondLife:
"So first question might be: What is a vlogger? A vlogger is short for Video Blogger and if you're familiar with blogs this should explain it all. Basically a video blog is like a normal blog just that it also contains videos. These are distributed by an RSS feed like blogs and tools like iTunes or FireAnt can subscribe to them and automatically download new videos for you (and eventually sync them to a portable media device).
And this article is about what you need to get started with doing videos inside Second Life."
Higher Speeds on Comcast?
Speakeasy - Speed Test.
Time for a new router?
Comcast upgrade speeds up downloads:
When a user downloads a large file like a movie or video game, that acceleration -- from 6 megabits per second to 12 megabits per second for subscribers to Comcast's $42.95 per-month service or from 8 megabits per second to 16 megabits per second for its $52.95 per-month tier -- would mean a significant reduction in time spent waiting.Another test from the NYC site:
Wow!
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Jay Severin - The Biggest Loser
Media Matters - Severin on abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib: "[W]e treated them essentially to a week in Las Vegas":
"Severin chastised Bush for calling his 'dead or alive' statement about Osama bin Laden 'a mistake.' Severin called on Bush to 'be a man. You're the commander in chief, not the fruit in chief. Don't apologize to people for speaking tough in a time of war.' Imus responded: 'Boy, you're right about that.' Later in the show, Severin appeared to echo Imus's characterization of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) as 'Satan.' Severin also called former Vice President Al Gore 'the biggest loser on the face of the earth.'"Read the transcript and decide for yourself.
Joe Hanson is the Steven Colbert of Current
Joe Hanson reports: Current TV // Current Issue // What's Wrong With Immigration?.
This is very funny and I'm glad to see that Current is putting more videos on the web.
I even saw them show up on Comcast.
But I like being able to watch what I want when I want.
BTW, I knew that he looked familiar. Joe was on Beauty and the Geek.
Check out his website, http://joeandhassan.com/
CAMRAOKE - Cute Kid
I found this Cute Kid YouTube video over on this Lip Syncing site, CAMRAOKE.
The problem with this type of thing is that the ownership of the video is lost when someone embeds it in a blog page. There's no way that I can see to find out who the original creator of the video is.
I did click the SHARE video option, but then that sends you an email that makes you sign in to YouTube. I'm actually a member, so I signed in, but hten it asked if I wanted to be come a friend of myself, so I said no. Ha! Then it dumped me onto the home page.
So I ended up doing a serach for Cute Kid and found it that way.
via [ loaded pun ]
Nelly Furtado Gnarls Barkley
Nelly Furtado - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover).
I like this version.
Haven't even heard hte original.
via [ Abby ]
I like this version.
Haven't even heard hte original.
via [ Abby ]
Couric, Stewart and Colbert
Joanna Weiss writes 'Today' bids Couric a fawning farewell - The Boston Globe:
Carlo Longino on why journalism is broken:
"The news will be foremost. And while CBS is paying dearly for that Couric charisma, the format will demand -- at least, one hopes -- that her personal life stay off-screen."I don't agree. If people are still watching the nightly news and CBS wants to do something different, they should shake things up.
Carlo Longino on why journalism is broken:
he biggest problem facing the journalism world is its ongoing ignorance of opinion. Facts are often meaningless without interpretation. To act like bias and subjectivity in that interpretation don’t exist is not only naïve, it’s short-sighted. For all that people talk about wanting “just the facts”, that isn’t true, they want them interpreted and presented in some particular way — witness the popularity of Fox News, or the interest in things like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. It’s this embrace of subjectivity that tends to separate old and new media, and is holding back journalism.[ via BoingBoing ]
The Office, Times 4 Tonight
NBC is repeating four episodes of the The Office tonight.
For those of you who gave up on it after watching the pilot, now's a good chance to catch up and see how good it became. I love it.
A 36-year-old question
Julie Leung: Seedlings & Sprouts: "...That's a 36-year-old question...":
"From an interview with E.L.Doctorow in Time magazine last week...(you have to pay to read it on-line)Time: Are you surprised you're still writing great books in your mid-70's?
Doctorow: How old are you?
Time: Um, 36.
Doctorow: Ah, yes, well, that's a 36-year-old question."
Ask has a new blog search
Ask.com - Search Blogs & Feeds .
It has a cool binocular feature on the search results page that lets you take a peek at the content without having to leave the page.
I also like how you can sort by: Relevance | Most Recent | Popularity.
I'm sure Google has these same features but I'm pretty used to just going there and searching for things without looking at any options.
Searching for myself, I just saw this:
Yup!
I did just post that 23 minutes ago.
Ask.com's blog search is fast.
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